Lead Quality Engineer

ABOUT US

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence, we enable businesses to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted services, we provide flexibility, stability and trust that empower our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence.

Join our innovative team and help us lead quality initiatives that empower developers and improve testing practices across work streams.

• Act as a technical expert in automated testing for Java microservices.
• Coach developers to adopt strong unit, component and contract testing practices and embed quality early in the SDLC.
• Drive a microservices testing strategy:
  Unit, component, contract, and simple, maintainable end‑to‑end tests.
• Encourage developers to run containerised services locally to avoid integration issues and keep pipelines clean in a trunk‑based development environment.
• Design and validate integration tests between Java services and AWS Lambda functions.
• Work in Agile / Scrum, lead in refinement sessions, improve user stories and acceptance criteria, and promote BDD practices (3 Amigos, Gherkin/Cucumber).
• Collaborate across teams to ensure consistent quality practices and continuous improvement in frameworks and pipelines.
• Lead the quality space across multiple teams in a "service family".

• Experience building and maintaining automated tests using Java (JUnit, Rest‑Assured) and Pact for contract testing.
• Proficiency with Selenium, Cypress and Playwright for UI testing where applicable.
• Integration of tests into CI/CD pipelines to support trunk‑based development.
• Strong Java development and test‑automation experience.
• Knowledge of microservices testing strategies.
• Solid AWS platform expertise, including Lambda (Java integration), API Gateway, S3, Cloud Watch and IAM.
• Proven ability to work in an Agile / Scrum environment.
• Experience with CI/CD and trunk‑based development.
• Passion for continuous learning and enabling others.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Containerisation & Orchestration:
  Docker, Kubernetes, EKS.
• Infrastructure as Code:
  Terraform, Cloud Formation.
• Service Mesh: exposure to Istio.
• Advanced testing tools:
  Pact, Rest‑Assured, Mockito, Localstack.
• Observability: distributed tracing and monitoring in microservices.

Senior Associate

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law.